The chief executive of Children’s Health Ireland has said that there needs to be an urgent change in pay policy for new consultants.

The first of two children's urgent care centres that will open as planned today will provide a safe service despite a shortage of senior doctors, the head Children's Health Ireland insists.

Further cost overruns during the development of the national children’s hospital are "highly likely", an Oireachtas committee has been told.

Ireland’s long-awaited National Children’s Hospital has been named after the phoenix, and like the mythical firebird, it has risen from its difficult past.

Health Minister Simon Harris has attempted to avoid a repeat of the national maternity hospital fiasco by insisting a new national children’s hospital will be “secular” and completely devoid of any religious control.

The external design of the new National Children’s Hospital has been unveiled.

There is no better testament to the Easter Rising than to begin building the new national children’s hospital next year on one of its most famous battle sites, the South Dublin Union, Health Minister Leo Varadkar said yesterday.

A blueprint for the new National Children's Hospital has been approved.

AT a national healthcare conference in 2011, Eilísh Hardiman, then CEO of the board driving the development of a new national children’s hospital, set out the parameters for what the proposed new facility should look like.

The former head of the children’s hospital development board has been appointed to lead the new hospital group.

The Chief Executive of Tallaght Hospital has insisted that there is no risk to patient safety arising from the backlog of around 6,000 reports on X-rays.

It made “absolute sense” for a major acute hospital to use an overdraft facility to manage its cash flow problems, Health Minister James Reilly said yesterday.

Claims patients will not pay for HSE overspends are wrong — care will be hit if costs are cut, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

The Taoiseach is admitting other hospitals may need to apply for an overdraft to deal with over-spending.

The Chief Executive of Tallaght Hospital says patient care should not be affected by its decision to apply for a €12m bank overdraft.

The resignation of junior health minister Róisín Shortall is the latest in a long list of high-profile figures to quit their posts in the health service since James Reilly took office in Mar 2011.

Management at Tallaght Hospital said a report into its substandard care of emergency department patients was “a wake-up call” to the entire health service and exposed a dangerous lack of leadership within the hospital.

Sick patients were put at risk by the State’s failure to hold Tallaght Hospital to account, the health watchdog has found.

A DUBLIN hospital whose emergency department (ED) was described as a “dangerous place” has been given until Monday to come up with measures to reduce the risk to patients.

THE board tasked with developing the new national children’s hospital has slashed by almost 50% the amount it is hoping to raise in charitable donations towards the estimated €650 million cost of the project.

The ambitious design for Ireland’s new children’s hospital has gone on public display after being lodged with planners.

A planning application for the proposed new national Children's Hospital is being submitted today.

THE board set up to drive the development of the proposed €650 million national children’s hospital does not have the expertise to handle such a crucial and large-scale project, according to its former chair.

A TEAM of international experts committed to a review of plans to build a new national children’s hospital on the Mater Hospital campus are not required to visit the controversial site.

An independent review is to be carried out into the project to build the new National Children’s Hospital on the site of the Mater Hospital in Dublin, it was announced today.

THE former head of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board has backed the new Government’s plans to re-examine whether the facility should be built at the Mater site.

The incoming Government is expected to review the location of the new children's hospital in Dublin.

THE possibility of relocating the proposed new children’s hospital from Dublin city centre to a site off the M50 has been discussed by incoming Taoiseach Enda Kenny with those driving the development.

FUNDING is still secure for the national children’s hospital which has reached the formal planning application stage, the chief executive of the development board has said.

The National Children’s Hospital will be a first-class facility where parents will no longer be forced to sleep on mattresses under the bed of their sick child, it was claimed today.

AN update on the design of the new national children’s hospital at the controversial Mater Hospital site in Dublin will be given today by those charged with its development.

THE first sod will be turned at the site of the new Children’s Hospital of Ireland by the year end, with the facility scheduled to open in late 2014, the head of the building project said yesterday.

THE new Children’s Hospital of Ireland will be more than twice the size of Croke Park, it emerged yesterday.